Drugs and Sports Doping

[Orion Paxis]

One of my players want to play a boxer (Barbarian) who uses performance enhancing drugs. I'm looking for suggestions on appropriate benefits and drawbacks from this behavior.

The player found Shoanti Barbarian Chew but he "was hoping for something a little more dangerous"

Ideas?

For references the story is set in Korvosa, so I'm planning for the drug to be made from an alchemical blend of Shoanti Barbarian Chew, qat and pesh.

[Ughbash]

Simplest performace enhancing drug would be a potion of bulls strength.

[Knight Magenta]

All of the Drugs presented in PF are super addictive and destructive. If you want drawback-free enhancement, you need to use magic :)

[Protoman]

Multiclass alchemist and use mutagens?

[blackbloodtroll]

Dolph Lundgren?

Anyways, a dip into Vivisectionist Alchemist makes sense for such a build.

If that doesn't suite you, Powdered Mummy Skin is the drug for a strength bonus.

[Bill Lumberg]

If the character engages in prizefights he must worry about opponents discovering his secret. This assumes that the fights are conducted under rules that forbid magic and pharmaceutical enhancements.

If you want to houserule a drawback I have a suggestion. Make the character psychologically dependent on the drugs. When he fights without them give him a morale penalty of -2 or so. Or give him access to cheaper than normal potions that are poorly made. They would use the same addiction rules as other drugs.

[ossian666]

The addiction rules just makes this a ton more fun...I'd make my player play those rules.

[blackbloodtroll]

Mutagen already has bonuses and penalties factored in.

[Orion Paxis]

Thanks for all the suggestions everyone I'm fairly new to pathfinder and didn't even realize there were rules for drugs in the pathfinder SRD, since they are not in the core rulebook. D'oh!

Those existing rules for drugs seem perfect for what I want. Though I may end up house-ruling the specific effects...but I hear there's another forum for that.

Cheers!

[ossian666]

I want to say that the Drugs and Addiction (as well as other illnesses) is in the Game Matery Guide (which frequently gets over looked but is filled with lots of good info).

[Brutesquad07]

When he has the drugs he can use his Barbarian sheet. When he doesn't give him a Monk sheet :)

[blackbloodtroll]

An Unarmed Fighter dip would work for this PC. Also, nabsome light armor with the Brawling enchantment.